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Today in photos (Jan. 16)

View a gallery of photos from around the world on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2013.

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, second right, and Mayor of London Boris Johnson, second left, visit a Crossrail construction site underneath Tottenham Court Road in central London, on Thursday Jan. 16, 2014. The Crossrail project, which is expected to be completed in 2018, will link Berkshire, west of London with Essex, east of London.

Mark Davis gives a thumbs-up toward a helicopter as he sprays water around his property, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, in Azusa, Calif. A wildfire burned out of control near homes in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains early Thursday, fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds that spit embers into neighborhoods in the city below, igniting trees. Evacuations were ordered for houses at the edge of the fire.

A wildfire burns in the hills just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif. on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014. Southern California authorities have ordered the evacuation of homes at the edge of a fast-moving wildfire burning in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.

Smoke formations begin to disperse over the Bahrain International Airshow on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, in Sakhir, Bahrain. Bahrain's state news agency said the International Airshow opened to announcements of more than $3 billion in agreements.

The Saudi Hawks Display Team performs Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, at the Bahrain International Airshow in Sakhir, Bahrain. Bahrain's state news agency says the International Airshow opened to announcements of more than $3 billion in agreements.

A statue of slain former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is surrounded by candles lit by his supporters during a vigil, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Nearly nine years after a truck bomb killed Hariri and 22 others, the trial started Thursday for four Hezbollah suspects accused of plotting the assassination that turned a Beirut seaside street into a "man-made hell."